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His ardent and humane passion for the octopus is present on every page. . Written in a superbly conversational style, this is already one of my favourite ever books. He notes that Godfrey-Smith's suggestion that cephalopods possess both intelligence, with a nervous system of some 500 million neurons, and perhaps consciousness "makes the recollection all the more disturbing. ―Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus, a National Book Award finalist"Godfrey-Smith delivers a revealing exploration of one―no, two!―of evolution's most critical turns, and one remarkable creature's trail-blazing, eight-armed foray into a mental life." What Makes the Octopus and Its Consciousness So Extraordinary, Singularity: Marie Howe’s Ode to Stephen Hawking, Our Cosmic Belonging, and the Meaning of Home, in a Stunning Animated Short Film, The Cosmic Miracle of Trees: Astronaut Leland Melvin Reads Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Earth’s Forests, How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe, 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings, Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert, Rebecca Solnit’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Solace, Empower, and Transform Us, Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives, In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times, A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety, The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. ―Callum Roberts, The Washington Post"[Other Minds's] subject is so amazing, it’s hard not to be drawn along, just as Godfrey-Smith was when he extended a hand to an octopus and it reached out to return his touch, echoing his interest." Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Paperback – Oct. 17 2017 by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Author) 4.5 out of 5 stars 530 ratings. .
Cephalopod intelligence is a measure of the cognitive ability of the cephalopod class of molluscs.. Intelligence is generally defined as the process of acquiring, storing, retrieving, combining, comparing, and recontextualizing information and conceptual skills.
How is it that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? A number of startling conclusions are offered on how evolutionary selection brought about consciousness, aging and a sense of self.
. But from the central brain's perspective they are partly non-self too, partly agents of their own.' [1], Peter Godfrey-Smith is an Australian philosopher of science, specialising in the philosophy of mind and its relationship with the philosophy of biology. But what, exactly makes the octopus so extraordinary and enthralling? The book doesn’t make any progress on its intended goal. She notes that Godfrey-Smith follows the neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene in suggesting that "there's a particular style of processing—one that we use to deal especially with time, sequences, and novelty—that brings with it conscious awareness, while a lot of other quite complex activities do not." Fascinating stuff. Amazon Price New from Used from Kindle Edition "Please retry" CDN$ 10.99 — — Audible Audiobook, Unabridged "Please retry" CDN$ 0.00 . It was first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins in 2017. Brain Pickings has a free Sunday digest of the week's most interesting and inspiring articles across art, science, philosophy, creativity, children's books, and other strands of our search for truth, beauty, and meaning. In other words, everyone should read this book―and come away with a more complex and compassionate relationship to the other animals with whom we share both Earth and sea." It is illustrated with 17 colour plates and monochrome photographs and diagrams in the text. Tracking the mind’s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. Other Minds is a superb, coruscating book. ―Frans de Waal, author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Such capabilities, in Godfrey-Smith's view, are present in some degree even in bacteria, which detect chemicals in their environment, and in insects such as bees, which recall the locations of food sources. Consciousness cannot be an object for thought because it is the means and essence behind thought. No Kindle device required. [1] Three groups of bilaterian animals with that kind of body plan evolved in the Cambrian period, some 500 million years ago: the arthropods (such as crabs and insects), the vertebrates, and within the molluscs, the cephalopods. .
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―Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows"One of our species's worst qualities is our insistence on an exclusive pathway to consciousness.
To do so while casting light on the birth and nature of consciousness, as Godfrey-Smith does here, is captivating." A must-read for anyone interested in what it’s like to be an octopus or in the evolution of the mind―ours and the very other, but equally sentient, minds of the cephalopods." "[8] He writes that Godfrey-Smith handles both biology and philosophy "profoundly but without ever talking down to his audience. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2017. Divergence of evolution in terms of intelligence raises a lot of interesting questions about who we are and how we see our world...and how it might be different if we were them. .
Cephalopods like the octopus or giant squid represent "an independent experiment in the evolution of large brains and complex behaviour" predicated on the same neural systems as our closer mammalian relatives. "Exciting, dramatic, vivid, revelatory, this book is full of jaw-dropping ideas and thrilling possibilities. "[5], The biologist Meehan Crist, in The Los Angeles Times, calls the book an "elegantly materialist telling", describing cephalopod intelligence as "subjective experience ... deeply embodied in physical form.
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